Ilan Vit-Suzan's Architectural Heritage Revisited: A Holistic Engagement of PDF

By Ilan Vit-Suzan

ISBN-10: 1138276707

ISBN-13: 9781138276703

ISBN-10: 1472420624

ISBN-13: 9781472420626

through bettering our figuring out of the way the tangible and intangible dimensions of historical past are correlated, shall we boost a dating with history that is going past the mere act of conservation. This e-book argues that we have to realize the old monument as a tangible point of a holistic expression of tradition that's rooted in particular spatio-temporal stipulations. besides the fact that, because the latter are continually altering, it will be significant to spot an implicit contradiction with the targets of conservation. because the intangible dimensions are extra dynamic, pushed via the transmission, reception, and development of data, the reliance of the present therapy of historical past this day, conservation, ossifies this dating. via analyzing 3 significant history monuments - the Pantheon, Teotihuacan's solar Pyramid and Alhambra - the ebook indicates how those websites are the manufactured from a number of thoughts and unexpected brokers, amassed via historical past. It emphasizes how those ancient traits have to be greater understood which will reach a extra 'organic' courting with background and provides a few concepts that are supposed to be analyzed in participative approaches of deliberation: the Pantheon's continuity will be prolonged; the Pyramid's loss, authorized; and Alhambra's exclusion, reversed. during this manner, the booklet invitations humans to have interaction background from a historic figuring out that's open to severe reassessment, discussion, and cooperation.

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